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Luxembourg license plate: Personalized

Issued today Documented since 2003. Personalized plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, tricycle, quadricycle, and trailer, issued by Ministere de la Mobilite et des Travaux publics. One of 15 Luxembourg license plates.

Luxembourg license plate, Personalized (documented since 2003), sample 7869
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Format, years and the law

Format
9999, for example 7869 (9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
Documented since 2003; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Personalized: owner-chosen serials inside an official frame. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, tricycle, quadricycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #F9B700
About this plate
NUMEROS D'IMMATRICULATION PERSONNALISES. Recorded as a dated gap rather than updated from a secondary, because a fee is exactly the kind of fact that is cheap to get wrong and expensive to be wrong about. Note also the transfer mechanism in art. 16 §1 that a parse API should know: a pre-2003 two-letters-three-digits number carried forward as a personalised number gets AN EXTRA DIGIT INSERTED before its three ("ces trois chiffres sont precedes par un chiffre supplementaire"), so some modern-looking six-character Luxembourg plates are legacy numbers padded to fit.
How numbers are issued
Not sequential, chosen. The four-digit series is scarce enough to have a statutory queue: "les demandes pour l'octroi d'un tel numero sont inscrites, dans l'ordre sequentiel de leur entree, dans une liste d'attente", one per person for life, allocated as numbers free up.
About the format
Art. 8 §1 lets an applicant request a personalised number drawn from the current series, from the four-digit series 1000-9999, or from the five-digit series 10000-99999; the 2006 amendment adds the 0100-3999 numeric element inside each letter series. So a personalised Luxembourg number may look exactly like an ordinary one, may look like a bare four- or five-digit number, and cannot be told apart from an ordinary current-series plate by inspection alone, except in the one direction that IS decidable: a two-letter plate whose digits fall below 4000 is personalised, because the current series starts at 4000. A match here is a shape hit only.

Legal basis and sources

  1. RGD 17-06-2003 art. 8 (the three series a personalised number may come from, the waiting list, transfer between the holder's vehicles, the 36-month reservation, inheritance at first degree, and the fees of 50 EUR on... https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2003/06/17/n2/jo/fr/pdf
  2. RGD 18-10-2006 art. 19: 0100-3999 within each letter series becomes available as personalised numbers. https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2006/10/18/n1/jo/fr/pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is lu-personalized-2003. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Luxembourg's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/lu \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "lu-personalized-2003")'
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